A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

To be spiritual is not to reject reason but to go beyond it.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him